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...prominent diplomatic visitor once described meeting him at a Moscow dinner: "My most vivid memory is the sight of Malenkov. It was the most sinister thing in the Soviet Union. I was struck by his repulsive appearance, bulbous, flabby and sallow . . . He was apparently oblivious of what was going on around him at the table. When toasts were made, he would lift his glass automatically, then relapse into sneering silence." Said another diplomat: "I would hate to be at the mercy of that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Stooge | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Force last week gave Lockheed Aircraft Corp. a contract to turn out a turboprop cargo assault transport "in quantity," the first such U.S. production contract. Powered by four Allison engines, the squat, bulbous C-130 is designed for quick shuttling of tactical weapons in airborne assaults, has a ramp for hustling trucks and howitzers aboard and a rear opening for air drops. Retooling for production of the C-130 will start shortly at Lockheed's big Marietta, Ga. plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: New Cargo Carrier | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...flying saucer swooped down to earth some day and disgorged a crew of bulbous-eyed Martians, Christian theologians might have to do some fast explaining. The Bible does not mention the existence of any inhabited worlds other than earth. Last week Father Francis J. Connell, C.Ss.R., dean of Catholic University's School of Sacred Theology, decided that the time had come to summarize his church's position on the question of invaders from outer space. "It is well for Catholics to know," he said, "that the principles of their faith are entirely reconcilable with even the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Theology of Saucers | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

With the eight-foot zombie were all his worldly possessions: a hollow palmetto trunk tuned to b flat, a bulbous cast-iron kettle, three Hopalong Cassidy dolls and a package of insect-mounting pins, and a shrunken cannibal head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Seer Grounded on Ellis Isle; Zombie Stranded by McCarran Act | 10/27/1950 | See Source »

Friendly, 59-year-old Scottie, with a nose as bulbous as one of his own gnomish ink faces, had been scratching pictures to amuse himself ever since he was a boy in the slums of Glasgow. After he moved to Canada 19 years ago to run a secondhand furniture shop, he found that he could attract customers by drawing in the window. One day Scottie's drawing attracted Bookbinder Douglas Duncan, who bought his pictures, helped arrange a one-man show in Toronto. By 1946 Scottie had moved on to London, become a hero to Horizon. Critics hailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Scottie's World | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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